hey Don i get to ride my first marc penn line train this saturday from union station and its the first northbound out of dc for the morning i dont know anyone that is on the marc penn line though but i do know one engineer on the arc brunswick line his name is rick he takes P873 and i might be able to ride in the cabcar on the way back ill see if i can video the engineer at the controls i think it depends what train set im on though ill see if one of the engineers will be nice enough to blow the same way that you do lol
Things have really changed at that spot and I believe you were lucky to be there at the right time. When I was in Illinois last March, I didn’t go there cause it was too far out of my range by transit. So therefore I just did two different spots outside Chicago for the same BNSF and UP.
Seeing all this action right before the lightning round of mergers and/or takeovers up till the early 2000s really makes me wish I was there for all thiS (plus I have a softspot for the CNW). Sure beats what we had out on the Tier and the WTL, even back then.
hey Don i get to ride my first marc penn line train this saturday from union station and its the first northbound out of dc for the morning i dont know anyone that is on the marc penn line though but i do know one engineer on the arc brunswick line his name is rick he takes P873 and i might be able to ride in the cabcar on the way back ill see if i can video the engineer at the controls i think it depends what train set im on though ill see if one of the engineers will be nice enough to blow the same way that you do lol
That is great! Have fun man!
Things have really changed at that spot and I believe you were lucky to be there at the right time. When I was in Illinois last March, I didn’t go there cause it was too far out of my range by transit. So therefore I just did two different spots outside Chicago for the same BNSF and UP.
Seeing all this action right before the lightning round of mergers and/or takeovers up till the early 2000s really makes me wish I was there for all thiS (plus I have a softspot for the CNW). Sure beats what we had out on the Tier and the WTL, even back then.
Same
Great classic video!
Thanks man.
i can see how this place turned into a quiet zone
Indeed
Super video :)
Man, no offense, but could you edit the audio?
Who's gonna tell him?
God watching this makes me want to see if I can get my digital 8 camcorder to fire up and play my Rochelle tapes from 92 to about 2002.
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And before BNSF was a thing or UP had Chicago North western
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